26 #GrowingUpBritish Tweets That'll Make You Yearn For Simpler Times

Look, 2016 sucks, we don't have to tell you this. Death, war, destruction and David Cameron - where do we even begin?

How about we just don't, and climb into a cocoon of warm, squidgy nostalgia instead - full of Coco Pops, pen erasers, CGP revision books and Ribena. You want that, don't you. And so does the rest of the internet*.

Check out all the best #GrowingUpBritish entries from people who grew up, erm, British - and remember a time when politics wasn't dominated by poison chalices and penis-measuring competitions between posh school boys**.

**Oh wait, still was. My bad. As you were

Related: Photographs To Make Stationery Geeks Weak At The Knees

90s Stationery We're Still Completely Obsessed With

Don't lie to us and say you didn't have one of these.

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Orrrrr these.

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Literally every adult in the UK right now over the age of 27 once owned this pencil case.

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Remember the pencil toppers you used to get in cereal? Remember getting things free in cereal, full stop? Dreamy.

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Fluffy birds everywhere.

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How many did your little brother steal off you?

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Everyone thought they had a bitchin' pencil collection, until some kid's parents took them to Disney and they came back with THESE as souvenirs.

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THESE HELD SECRETS. BIG SECRETS.

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You weren't cool until you went on a school trip to the Millennium Dome and purchased a single pencil made from one recycled drinking cup.

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You really were funky friends, tho.

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OK, technically not stationery but were anyone else's windows/wardrobes/desks COVERED in these!?